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Walter Cronkite (Photo credit: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department © 2006, Richard Roberts)
Iconic CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite died today at the age of 92. The newsman died of cerebral vascular disease at 7:42 p.m. ET in his New York City home surrounded by his family.
CBS News was the standard for television news during Walter Cronkite’s tenure.
After he left, the place was never the same.
He saw the country through the Kennedy assassination and the national mourning that followed and Man walking on the moon (I’m especially disheartened he’ll miss the 40th Anniversary of that monumental event this coming week).
He reported on the Vietnam War and of a Presidential resignation following something called Watergate.
I didn’t know him, I knew of him. I watched him. Everybody did.
My only connection to him was when I bestowed on him an honor I am pretty sure he never heard about: the best voiceover performance of 2006.
Good night Walter.
